The Supreme Court of America on Friday gave an important verdict, saying that no one judge had the right to give any order for the whole country. However, the court did not make it clear what would happen to the ban on citizenship by President Donald Trump. The decision is a win for the Republican President, who has complained of obstructing their agenda by individual judges.
He described it as a ‘luxurious victory’ and said that he would immediately sue to carry forward the policies blocked by the judges, including congenital citizenship restrictions.
However, the orthodox majority of the court indicated that the order related to the birthright of President Donald Trump can still be banned across the country. Justice Amy Kony Barrett wrote that the cases are now back to the lower courts, where judges have to decide how to prepare their orders to comply with the High Court’s decision.
The judges also agreed with the Trump administration as well as the President of Biden that the judges were encroaching the border by issuing orders to apply to all instead of the parties only before the court.
Expressing disagreement, Justice Sonia Sotomore wrote, “The court’s decision is nothing short of an open invitation to the government to bypassing the constitution.”
Sotomore said that this is because the administration may be able to implement a policy even when it has been challenged and found unconstitutional by the lower court.
This order of President Trump prevents children from giving American citizenship to those parents who are living illegally in America. Birthday citizenship makes anyone born in the US automatically American citizens, including children who are illegally born in the country.
Soon after the Civil War, this right was included in the 14th amendment of the Constitution. America is one of the 30 countries where the principle of birthright applies. Most of these countries are in the US, including Canada and Mexico.
Trump and his supporters have argued that there should be stringent standards to become an American citizen, which he called ‘an invaluable and deep gift’ in the executive order signed on the first day of his tenure.
The Trump administration has insisted that the children of non-citizens are not ‘subject to jurisdiction’ (a phrase used in amendment), so they are not entitled to citizenship.